This is something that's a common myth, I think. The national shipbuilding procurement strategy is based on two contracts: one contract to Irving Shipbuilding and one to Vancouver Shipyards. Those are called umbrella agreements. Those umbrella agreements, as we've said before, are sort of non-binding letters of interest to say, “We're going to negotiate with you to build ships, but we're going to do it on a piece-by-piece basis and the government isn't obliged to build anything, any number of vessels.” Those umbrella agreements are actually restricted to a certain number and type of vessels, which are listed in annex A of those umbrella agreements.
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